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- the present invention relates generally to dimmable light emitting diode (LED) lamps, and in particular to an LED lamp power source that controls dimming of the LEDs from the secondary side of a transformer.
- LED light emitting diode
- Lighting control and power supply integrated circuits are in common use in both electronic systems and in replaceable consumer lighting devices, e.g., light-emitting-diode (LED) and compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) replacements for traditional incandescent light bulbs.
- LED light-emitting-diode
- CFL compact fluorescent lamp
- the power conversion required for operating LED lamps efficiently is typically from a relatively high-voltage rectified AC line power supply (e.g., 120 VAC or 240 VAC rectified to 180 VDC or 360 VDC), to the forward voltage drop of one or more LEDs arranged in a series-connected “string”, which is on the order of 5V-15V for the typical incandescent bulb replacement device. Since, without filtering, this rectified line voltage will vary at a slow rate (e.g., 120 Hz), energy must be stored to avoid varying the current supplied to the LEDs. Therefore, capacitors of sufficient storage must be provided to filter the rectified line voltage, and/or the rectified line voltage must be converted to a lower DC voltage to provide the proper operating voltage for the LEDs. Thus it is desirable to convert the rectified line voltage to a lower DC voltage using a transformer-coupled topology, such as a flyback converter.
- a transformer-coupled topology such as a flyback converter.
- controlling the dimming level in dimmable LED lighting devices typically requires another isolated signal path, such as an optical isolator or signal transformer to permit communication of the dimming information (i.e., the shape of the AC line waveform that is provided from a thyristor-based dimmer) to the secondary side of the transformer, which raises the cost of the replacement lighting device, as well as complexity of the circuit.
- an optical isolator or signal transformer to permit communication of the dimming information (i.e., the shape of the AC line waveform that is provided from a thyristor-based dimmer) to the secondary side of the transformer, which raises the cost of the replacement lighting device, as well as complexity of the circuit.
- the invention is embodied in a circuit for supplying power to multiple lighting devices, an IC including such a circuit and a method of operation of the circuit.
- the circuit is an isolated circuit including a transformer having a primary winding coupled to a first power converter circuit that converts a rectified AC line voltage to a lower voltage, and a secondary winding coupled to a storage capacitor.
- the circuit further includes a second power converter circuit that supplies current to one or more LED strings from the storage capacitor in conformity with a dimming value.
- the dimming value is communicated through the transformer by patterns or codes provided in switching pulses of the first power converter circuit, or alternatively by a special modulated signal provided in addition to the switching pulses.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram depicting connections of a lighting device 10 .
- FIG. 2 is a pictorial diagram depicting a physical configuration of lighting device 10 .
- FIG. 3 is a simplified schematic diagram depicting details within lighting device 10 .
- FIG. 4 is a simplified schematic diagram depicting other details within lighting device 10 .
- FIG. 5 is a signal waveform diagram illustrating signals within lighting device 10 .
- FIG. 6 is a signal waveform diagram illustrating signals within lighting device 10 .
- the present invention encompasses circuits and methods for powering and controlling lighting diodes (LEDs), in which a transformer is used to isolate the LEDs from the input AC line and in which dimming information is conveyed through the transformer by encoding the dimming information either in the positions of switching pulses used to couple energy through the transformer, or by additional information coupled through the transformer.
- LEDs lighting diodes
- a replacement lighting device 10 is shown connected to an AC line voltage source 6 via a triac-based dimmer 8 , such as is generally found in household lighting applications.
- Replacement lighting device 10 includes LED strings LEDA,LEDB that produce illumination in place of a typical incandescent bulb, providing longer life, less heat and less energy consumption than the equivalent incandescent bulb.
- a transformer T 1 provides isolation between a primary-side circuit coupled to triac-based dimmer 8 and a secondary-side circuit that supplies current to LED strings LEDA,LEDB.
- a primary side controller integrated circuit (IC) 20 operates a switching transistor N 1 , which is illustrated as external to primary side controller IC 20 , but that alternatively may be included within primary side controller IC 20 .
- Primary-side controller IC 20 includes a pulse-width modulator, or other suitable controller capable of controlling the amount of energy applied to the primary winding of transformer T 1 , by the activation of switching transistor N 1 , according to dimming values that are determined from detecting a dimming level of triac-based dimmer 8 from a waveshape of power supply voltage +V S , which is generated from the input AC voltage supplied from triac-based dimmer 8 by a bridge rectifier BR and a filter capacitor C 1 .
- Replacement lighting device 10 also includes a secondary-side switching power converter 28 that controls the current supplied to each of LED strings LEDA,LEDB, and includes a dump circuit 32 that dissipates any excess energy transferred from the primary side of transformer T 1 .
- a control integrated circuit 30 operates secondary-side switching power converter 28 .
- a converter circuit CONV includes bridge rectifier BR, primary-side controller IC 20 , capacitor C 1 , transistor N 1 , transformer T 1 , and any other components required for the primary-side circuit.
- a heatsink HS is included within replacement lighting device 10 to dissipate heat generated by LED strings LEDA,LEDB, and is also used to mount LED strings LEDA,LEDB and switching power converter 28 , as well as dissipate heat generated by switching power converter 28 .
- a dimming detector 12 detects a dimming value of triac-based dimmer 8 from the waveshape of power supply voltage +V S , which may be performed according to the techniques described in above-incorporated U.S. Patent Application “DUTY FACTOR PROBING OF A TRIAC-BASED DIMMER”, Ser. No. 13/287,257.
- the dimming value is communicated through transformer T 1 either by the pattern, frequency and/or timing of switching pulses corresponding to activations of switching transistor N 1 , or by additional signals injected by a modulator 13 during intervals when switching transistor N 1 is off, e.g., after all of the required energy has been transferred for a given cycle of the input AC waveform.
- a voltage sensing circuit 16 senses the voltage across the primary winding of transformer T 1 , which, when transistor N 1 is off and diode D 1 is forward biased, indicates the voltage across capacitor C 2 . Having an indication of the voltage across capacitor C 2 from the primary winding of transformer T 1 permits primary side controller IC 20 to regulate the voltage across capacitor C 2 without an additional isolated feedback path.
- the indicated voltage across capacitor C 2 is used to control the switching of primary-side controller 14 , which in the example is a pulse width modulator.
- primary side controller IC 20 can be a relatively simple circuit with a low pin-count, as the task of controlling the current supplied to LED strings LEDA,LEDB is delegated to secondary-side switching power converter 28 .
- a separate secondary-side power converter circuit 40 A, 40 B draws energy from capacitor C 2 , and supplies a current to the corresponding one of LED strings LEDA,LEDB according to the current dimming value.
- Separate control of current is necessary since the amount of current required for a given brightness differs between LED types (LED colors) and the amount of brightness needed to adequately simulate the dimming of an incandescent bulb varies separately for the different LED strings LEDA,LEDB. For example, at lower illumination levels, the red portion of the spectrum dominates as the illumination intensity is decreased.
- Each of secondary-side power converter circuits 40 A, 40 B include a switching transistor N 2 , a current sensing resistor R 1 an inductor L 1 , a flyback diode D 4 and another diode D 3 that prevents back-conduction into capacitor C 2 and the other circuits coupled to capacitor C 2 .
- a storage capacitor C 3 is provided across the corresponding LED string LEDA,LEDB to prevent any visible light variation due to switching.
- the depicted secondary power converters 40 A, 40 B are inverted buck configurations, in which current I L is drawn through the corresponding LED string LEDA,LEDB when transistor N 2 is activated by secondary side control IC 30 and when transistor N 2 is de-activated by secondary side control IC 30 , the energy stored in inductor L 1 is dumped into capacitor C 3 through flyback diode D 4 .
- Dump circuit 32 includes a switching transistor N 3 and a resistor R 2 that are used to dissipate any excess energy present on capacitor C 2 , when gate/dump controller 46 determines that the voltage on capacitor C 2 has risen too high, or directly according to the dimming value, which is detected from the secondary winding of transformer T 1 by a dimming value detector 42 .
- Dimming value detector 42 of secondary-side controller IC 30 and primary side controller 14 (or optionally modulator 13 ) of primary-side controller IC 20 act in concert to communicate the dimming value from dimming detector 12 of primary-side controller IC 20 to gate/dump controller 46 of secondary-side controller IC 30 .
- AC line voltage V line is illustrated along with the cut sine waveforms of rectified dimmer output forming power supply voltage V S .
- the triac in triac-based dimmer 8 turns on at time t on1 , which represents the beginning of available energy transfer, the duration of which is indicated by signal run, which terminates at the zero-crossing of AC line voltage V line , and which also indicates the dimming value directly.
- the triac in triac-based dimmer 8 turns off whenever the current falls below the hold current of the triac, i.e., at times t z1 , t z2 , t z3 , and t z4 .
- Signal triac on shows the on-time of the triac. Since one goal of the dimming communication techniques of the circuits illustrated herein is to communicate the dimming value indicated by the width of signal run, one way to provide the indication is to always start the operation of primary-side controller 14 of FIG.
- control signal sw in accordance with one example.
- the frequency of pulses in control signal sw(alt) is modulated to reflect the dimming value.
- dimming value detector 42 of FIG. 4 is adapted to measure the time interval between the beginning and final pulse of the pulse burst for the example of control signal sw, or the frequency of leading edges of the pulses in control signal sw(alt).
- the dimming value can be encoded in patterns within control signal sw.
- Signal sw+mod illustrates a control signal in accordance with one example, in which a particular low-amplitude code pattern c 1 is embedded in control signal sw+mod by modulator 13 of FIG. 2 to indicate zero-crossing times t z1 , t z2 , t z3 , and t z4 .
- control signal sw+mod(alt 1 ) which illustrates insertion of a code pattern c 2 that forms a binary code directly encoding dimming value dim, which can be detected by a suitable decoder within dimming value detector 42 of FIG. 4 .
- control signal sw+mod(alt 2 ) illustrates insertion of a burst c 3 , the frequency of which indicates dimming value dim which can be detected by a suitable frequency detector within dimming value detector 42 of FIG. 4 .
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- The present U.S. Patent Application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/503,369 filed on Jun. 30, 2011, priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/287,257 filed on Nov. 2, 2011, and priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/194,531 filed on Jul. 29, 2011, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/369,202 filed on Jul. 30, 2010. The disclosures of the above-referenced U.S. Patent Applications are incorporated herein by reference.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates generally to dimmable light emitting diode (LED) lamps, and in particular to an LED lamp power source that controls dimming of the LEDs from the secondary side of a transformer.
- 2. Background of the Invention
- Lighting control and power supply integrated circuits (ICs) are in common use in both electronic systems and in replaceable consumer lighting devices, e.g., light-emitting-diode (LED) and compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) replacements for traditional incandescent light bulbs.
- The power conversion required for operating LED lamps efficiently is typically from a relatively high-voltage rectified AC line power supply (e.g., 120 VAC or 240 VAC rectified to 180 VDC or 360 VDC), to the forward voltage drop of one or more LEDs arranged in a series-connected “string”, which is on the order of 5V-15V for the typical incandescent bulb replacement device. Since, without filtering, this rectified line voltage will vary at a slow rate (e.g., 120 Hz), energy must be stored to avoid varying the current supplied to the LEDs. Therefore, capacitors of sufficient storage must be provided to filter the rectified line voltage, and/or the rectified line voltage must be converted to a lower DC voltage to provide the proper operating voltage for the LEDs. Thus it is desirable to convert the rectified line voltage to a lower DC voltage using a transformer-coupled topology, such as a flyback converter.
- However, by using a transformer-coupled topology, controlling the dimming level in dimmable LED lighting devices typically requires another isolated signal path, such as an optical isolator or signal transformer to permit communication of the dimming information (i.e., the shape of the AC line waveform that is provided from a thyristor-based dimmer) to the secondary side of the transformer, which raises the cost of the replacement lighting device, as well as complexity of the circuit.
- Therefore, it would be desirable to provide a lower-cost transformer-isolated power source circuit that can supply LEDs without requiring a separate isolated signal path for controlling the brightness of one or more LED strings in conformity with a dimming level determined from the shape of the input AC line voltage.
- The invention is embodied in a circuit for supplying power to multiple lighting devices, an IC including such a circuit and a method of operation of the circuit.
- The circuit is an isolated circuit including a transformer having a primary winding coupled to a first power converter circuit that converts a rectified AC line voltage to a lower voltage, and a secondary winding coupled to a storage capacitor. The circuit further includes a second power converter circuit that supplies current to one or more LED strings from the storage capacitor in conformity with a dimming value. The dimming value is communicated through the transformer by patterns or codes provided in switching pulses of the first power converter circuit, or alternatively by a special modulated signal provided in addition to the switching pulses.
- The foregoing and other objectives, features, and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following, more particular, description of the preferred embodiment of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram depicting connections of alighting device 10. -
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FIG. 3 is a simplified schematic diagram depicting details withinlighting device 10. -
FIG. 4 is a simplified schematic diagram depicting other details withinlighting device 10. -
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FIG. 6 is a signal waveform diagram illustrating signals withinlighting device 10. - The present invention encompasses circuits and methods for powering and controlling lighting diodes (LEDs), in which a transformer is used to isolate the LEDs from the input AC line and in which dimming information is conveyed through the transformer by encoding the dimming information either in the positions of switching pulses used to couple energy through the transformer, or by additional information coupled through the transformer.
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FIG. 1 , areplacement lighting device 10 is shown connected to an ACline voltage source 6 via a triac-baseddimmer 8, such as is generally found in household lighting applications.Replacement lighting device 10 includes LED strings LEDA,LEDB that produce illumination in place of a typical incandescent bulb, providing longer life, less heat and less energy consumption than the equivalent incandescent bulb. A transformer T1, provides isolation between a primary-side circuit coupled to triac-baseddimmer 8 and a secondary-side circuit that supplies current to LED strings LEDA,LEDB. - A primary side controller integrated circuit (IC) 20 operates a switching transistor N1, which is illustrated as external to primary side controller IC 20, but that alternatively may be included within primary
side controller IC 20. Primary-side controller IC 20 includes a pulse-width modulator, or other suitable controller capable of controlling the amount of energy applied to the primary winding of transformer T1, by the activation of switching transistor N1, according to dimming values that are determined from detecting a dimming level of triac-baseddimmer 8 from a waveshape of power supply voltage +VS, which is generated from the input AC voltage supplied from triac-baseddimmer 8 by a bridge rectifier BR and a filter capacitor C1.Replacement lighting device 10 also includes a secondary-sideswitching power converter 28 that controls the current supplied to each of LED strings LEDA,LEDB, and includes adump circuit 32 that dissipates any excess energy transferred from the primary side of transformer T1. A control integratedcircuit 30 operates secondary-sideswitching power converter 28. - Referring additionally to
FIG. 2 , a pictorial diagram ofreplacement lighting device 10 is shown. A converter circuit CONV includes bridge rectifier BR, primary-side controller IC 20, capacitor C1, transistor N1, transformer T1, and any other components required for the primary-side circuit. A heatsink HS is included withinreplacement lighting device 10 to dissipate heat generated by LED strings LEDA,LEDB, and is also used to mount LED strings LEDA,LEDB andswitching power converter 28, as well as dissipate heat generated by switchingpower converter 28. Placing the control of current supplied to LED strings LEDA,LEDB on the secondary side of transformer T1 can allow for lower-voltage transistors and capacitors and higher frequency switching (which reduces inductor and capacitor sizes), reducing the cost of supplying and controlling current to multiple LED strings. Further, since both heatsink HS anddump circuit 32 are on the isolated secondary side of transformer T1, heatsink HS can be used to dissipate heat generated bydump circuit 32. - Referring now to
FIG. 3 , details of primaryside controller IC 20 are shown, in accordance with an example described below. Adimming detector 12 detects a dimming value of triac-baseddimmer 8 from the waveshape of power supply voltage +VS, which may be performed according to the techniques described in above-incorporated U.S. Patent Application “DUTY FACTOR PROBING OF A TRIAC-BASED DIMMER”, Ser. No. 13/287,257. The dimming value is communicated through transformer T1 either by the pattern, frequency and/or timing of switching pulses corresponding to activations of switching transistor N1, or by additional signals injected by amodulator 13 during intervals when switching transistor N1 is off, e.g., after all of the required energy has been transferred for a given cycle of the input AC waveform. Avoltage sensing circuit 16 senses the voltage across the primary winding of transformer T1, which, when transistor N1 is off and diode D1 is forward biased, indicates the voltage across capacitor C2. Having an indication of the voltage across capacitor C2 from the primary winding of transformer T1 permits primaryside controller IC 20 to regulate the voltage across capacitor C2 without an additional isolated feedback path. The indicated voltage across capacitor C2 is used to control the switching of primary-side controller 14, which in the example is a pulse width modulator. Thus, primaryside controller IC 20 can be a relatively simple circuit with a low pin-count, as the task of controlling the current supplied to LED strings LEDA,LEDB is delegated to secondary-sideswitching power converter 28. - Referring now to
FIG. 4 , details of secondary sideswitching power converter 28 are shown. A separate secondary-sidepower converter circuit - Each of secondary-side
power converter circuits secondary power converters side control IC 30 and when transistor N2 is de-activated by secondaryside control IC 30, the energy stored in inductor L1 is dumped into capacitor C3 through flyback diode D4.Dump circuit 32 includes a switching transistor N3 and a resistor R2 that are used to dissipate any excess energy present on capacitor C2, when gate/dump controller 46 determines that the voltage on capacitor C2 has risen too high, or directly according to the dimming value, which is detected from the secondary winding of transformer T1 by adimming value detector 42. -
Dimming value detector 42 of secondary-side controller IC 30 and primary side controller 14 (or optionally modulator 13) of primary-side controller IC 20, act in concert to communicate the dimming value fromdimming detector 12 of primary-side controller IC 20 to gate/dump controller 46 of secondary-side controller IC 30. There are numerous signaling techniques available for communicating information through a switched power isolation transformer, some of which are illustrated in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,656,687, 7,804,697 and 7,796,076, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. In the present disclosure, the techniques are grouped in two categories: signaling using the power-transferring switching pulses to convey the dimming information and signaling using an additional signal that conveys the dimming information. - Referring now to
FIG. 5 , examples of the first category of dimming communication techniques are illustrated in accordance with different examples. AC line voltage Vline is illustrated along with the cut sine waveforms of rectified dimmer output forming power supply voltage VS. The triac in triac-baseddimmer 8 turns on at time ton1, which represents the beginning of available energy transfer, the duration of which is indicated by signal run, which terminates at the zero-crossing of AC line voltage Vline, and which also indicates the dimming value directly. The triac in triac-baseddimmer 8 turns off whenever the current falls below the hold current of the triac, i.e., at times tz1, tz2, tz3, and tz4. Signal triac on shows the on-time of the triac. Since one goal of the dimming communication techniques of the circuits illustrated herein is to communicate the dimming value indicated by the width of signal run, one way to provide the indication is to always start the operation of primary-side controller 14 ofFIG. 3 when signal run is asserted (at times ton1, ton2, ton3 and ton4) and to always assert (or terminate) a final pulse at a time when signal run is de-asserted. The final pulses are located at times tz1, tz2, tz3, and tz4, even though energy transfer is substantially complete earlier, e.g., at time txfc in the first illustrated cycle. The above type of signaling in illustrated by control signal sw, in accordance with one example. In accordance with another example, the frequency of pulses in control signal sw(alt) is modulated to reflect the dimming value. In both of the above examples, dimmingvalue detector 42 ofFIG. 4 is adapted to measure the time interval between the beginning and final pulse of the pulse burst for the example of control signal sw, or the frequency of leading edges of the pulses in control signal sw(alt). In accordance with another example, the dimming value can be encoded in patterns within control signal sw. - Referring now to
FIG. 6 , examples of the second category of dimming communication techniques are illustrated. The illustrated waveforms are the same as those illustrated inFIG. 5 , with the exception of control signal sw, so only the additional signals inFIG. 6 will be described below. Signal sw+mod illustrates a control signal in accordance with one example, in which a particular low-amplitude code pattern c1 is embedded in control signal sw+mod bymodulator 13 ofFIG. 2 to indicate zero-crossing times tz1, tz2, tz3, and tz4. Dimmingvalue detector 42 ofFIG. 4 is adapted to detect code pattern c1, which is illustrated as a low-amplitude bi-polar pulse, but may be any detectable code pattern. Other examples are illustrated by control signal sw+mod(alt1), which illustrates insertion of a code pattern c2 that forms a binary code directly encoding dimming value dim, which can be detected by a suitable decoder within dimmingvalue detector 42 ofFIG. 4 . Finally control signal sw+mod(alt2) illustrates insertion of a burst c3, the frequency of which indicates dimming value dim which can be detected by a suitable frequency detector within dimmingvalue detector 42 ofFIG. 4 . - While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to the preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing and other changes in form, and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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